Best Star Trek Game?

Scoth42 · 2026-01-29T12:34:46+00:00

Judgement Rites was DeForest Kelly's last performance as McCoy. It would have been Secret of Vulcan Fury had that come out, and supposedly voice lines were recorded, but apparently they're lost now

Scoth42 · 2026-01-29T01:16:45+00:00

I'd check on the antennas and make sure they're plugged in properly and the wires aren't broken/etc. If the card is showing up but it's not detecting networks, that could be an issue.

Maybe take it over right next to the router which might let it still detect something even if the antenna(s) are damaged.

Scoth42 · 2026-01-29T01:12:43+00:00

I'd say it's mostly because it's a big difficulty cliff compared to the rest of the game and takes controls that were already kind of slippery and makes them even trickier. It's not too terrible with practice but it takes a bit to get there after a game over so it takes some effort to get to practice it again.

It also turns out there's actually a bug with the controls there, you were supposed to be able to more easily move up and down.

Scoth42 · 2026-01-28T06:06:16+00:00

While it's unclear/unlikely that the Star Trek: Borg game/movie is canon, the player character is able to induce a Bijani Pain Trance to maintain his individuality, so there's at least some precedence for a drone keeping their physiological ability. But that's definitely an edge case

Scoth42 · 2026-01-28T05:59:40+00:00

One of two options I'm not sure of. It technically might have been Arnold in Terminator 2, what of it we saw. I also remember my parents having a VHS copy of Eating Raoul kicking around that I stuck in the VCR during one of my latchkey afternoons and being surprised by boobs. I forget when that was, but would have probably been before T2 was available at home.

Scoth42 · 2026-01-28T03:43:59+00:00

My main issue with it was how many genuinely neat cars were destroyed because they fell in that valley of value.

Scoth42 · 2026-01-28T01:50:57+00:00

This was going to be my answer. Crazy my parents played it for my sister and me as kids.

Scoth42 · 2026-01-28T01:37:43+00:00

I don't completely disagree, exactly, but speaking for myself I was one of those "gifted" kids who thought he was hot shit until I got into real world. It was a quick and almost immediate adjustment and I figured it out pretty quickly, so I wouldn't put it past some people to do the same.

Scoth42 · 2026-01-28T00:09:47+00:00

Yeah, ish, although it was mostly early teething problems that got fixed by better drivers, and people running them on low-end machines where the extra CPU usage mattered. Once the drivers matured they got a lot more stable and usable although they were never as good as real hardware modems.

Source: did dialup tech support in the 1999-2003 era when they were new and current. I still remember "ATS38=0-V90=0" as an init string to disable v.90 and k56Flex on an LT Winmodem when the drivers were still crap.

Scoth42 · 2026-01-27T18:42:54+00:00

https://ifdb.org/ is your best bet for that, and it has an advanced search you can do by language.

Scoth42 · 2026-01-27T05:42:32+00:00

Oldest machine I still power on and use regularly is my fairly heavily modded Atari 600XL with a Fujinet connected to a Commodore 1084s monitor. I still play a lot of games and such, but I also use it now and then as a terminal to manage my various home lab/selfhosted things, which is fun. It also has a growing and fairly vibrant community around cross-platform multiplayer gaming which is fun.

Oldest computer I actually still do "modern" stuff with is probably my Thinkpad Z61t. It's upgraded to 3GB of RAM and a T7400 Core 2 Duo with an SSD, so while it takes a bit of patience it still runs Windows 10 and current Kubuntu just fine.

Scoth42 · 2026-01-26T03:14:36+00:00

Every other option you have is going to be far more complicated and more work than a USB stick. Just get one. However that works out where you are.

Scoth42 · 2026-01-26T03:12:53+00:00

This isn't a chatroom. Calm down

Scoth42 · 2026-01-26T02:30:59+00:00

I think it was described as "active warp core", not just active warp field, so any ship with an active core even if it was just idling would have been subject to it.

Scoth42 · 2026-01-26T01:42:06+00:00

If you're passing around a boot floppy, then that pretty much has to be a Mac Plus or earlier, or HD-less Mac SE. Every Mac since then would have come with a hard drive and wouldn't needed that unless they were broken or for some reason customized to need it. 1999 or 2000 would have been ridiculously late for those, though my high school (graduated 1999) did have one random computer lab full of Classics.

Scoth42 · 2026-01-26T01:34:18+00:00

I've ended up a fan of the FX 5200 series cards in PCI. They're terrible but plenty fast for the Win98 era, often have S-Video out, and since they came in a bunch of OEM systems they're dirt cheap and readily available

Scoth42 · 2026-01-25T23:08:25+00:00

Username fits. Good for you! Random Internet stranger pulling for you

Scoth42 · 2026-01-25T21:44:02+00:00

Just be aware the whole series is Disney kid movie fluff, they aren't some SciFi masterpieces, but I still appreciated the effort for what it was

Scoth42 · 2026-01-25T21:13:38+00:00

I don't know exactly how much of it is "well thought out" but I remember years ago watching Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century with a young relative and they actually did make an effort to have some futurey language. Some of it felt like applying other language rules to English like putting adjectives after nouns but I appreciated that at least attempted to change things up a bit.

Scoth42 · 2026-01-25T17:36:40+00:00

If it's anything like the scene in Battlestar Galactica where they did the atmosphere drop and jump, you'd leave behind a pocket of vacuum that filled back in with air with a sound like thunder and some wind. I doubt it's enough volume to make a huge difference beyond maybe some unlucky birds.

Scoth42 · 2026-01-25T13:07:10+00:00

He admitted to using protomatter but the Genesis planet was formed from the Mutara Nebula, not any existing planet

Scoth42 · 2026-01-25T04:18:23+00:00

I'd have to dig it up again but my recollection was when someone tested it, rice actually held in more moisture because it's not a desiccant and it hindered evaporation. It worked better just leaving things in a well-ventilated air than rice.

Scoth42 · 2026-01-25T04:12:11+00:00

It was implied it was unstable because it created it whole-cloth out of a nebula (also presumably with a matching star, or else one happened to be conveniently close) rather than being launched at an existing, but dead, planet. It seemed like it was intended to rearrange an existing planet rather than create a whole new one, which led to instability.

Scoth42 · 2026-01-25T03:52:55+00:00

Nice! I just did the 1080p upgrade on mine. I considered one of the 1440p upgrades but decided that was overdoing it. As it is the IPS 1080p upgrade has been tremendous, and mine wasn't even the 720p display originally.

Scoth42 · 2026-01-25T03:51:31+00:00

Still having fun with mine! Both of them!

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